Rabbi Bonnie Margulis holds a Masters Degree in Judaic Studies from New York University, and was ordained at Hebrew Union College (HUC), Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1992.  Currently working as a Jewish educator in Madison, WI, Rabbi Margulis served for twelve years as the Director of Clergy Programming for the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.  As Director of Clergy Programming, Rabbi Margulis ran the Clergy for Choice Network and supervised the Religious Coalition’s signature All Options Clergy Counseling program, providing training to clergy in both All Options Clergy Counseling and Pastoral Counseling for Reproductive Losses, and teaching others to provide these trainings.

Rabbi Margulis is proud to be a member of the Reform Movement’s Commission on Social Action, where she sits on the Women and Minorities Task Force.  She is also a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Justice and Peace Committee, and is Immediate Past Chair of the Women’s Rabbinic Network Social Justice Committee. In addition, Rabbi Margulis is a member of the J Street National Advisory Board for Field and Grassroots Organizing, heads the steering committee for J Street/Madison (formerly Wisconsin Brit Tzedek v’Shalom), is past chair of the Wisconsin Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and is a member of the Wisconsin Women’s Network’s Reproductive Rights Task Force and the Dane County Coalition for Women’s Health.

From 1992-1996, Rabbi Margulis served as rabbi of the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Hillel.  During that time, she was also the coordinator of the Shenandoah Friends of Planned Parenthood, a grassroots education and advocacy group dedicated to preserving reproductive freedom.  She has taught courses in Judaism and in Hebrew Bible at Washington and Lee University and at James Madison University.

In 1989, Rabbi Margulis worked as a Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, lobbying in coalition with other faith organizations on behalf of Soviet Jewry and other refugee groups.

Rabbi Margulis is married to Rabbi Jonathan Biatch, and they have two children, Samantha Chaya Biatch and Joshua Ariel Biatch.